| Title: | Sherry, Sir |
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| Notes: | "The greatest among you will be your servant. All who exalt themselves will be humbled, and all who humble themselves will be exalted. -- Matthew 23:11-12 Thomas Waterman Wood spent time during the Civil War and shortly thereafter in the upper South of Nashville, TN, and Kentucky. During his stay, he made a number of sketches of African-Americans, and upon his return to the Northeast, he developed these into insightful works of the life of the freed slave. This painting of an African-American domestic, a generation after emancipation, was one of several works on the theme of the American household in the boom times of the late 1880's and early 1890's, especially in the Northeast. Ironically, she is serving, serving in freedom, a paradox that engages the viewer. |
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| Date: | 1890 |
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| Artist: | Wood, Thomas Waterman, 1823-1903 |
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| Building: | Detroit Institute of Arts
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| Object/Function: | Painting |
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| City/Town: | Detroit
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| State: | MI
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| Country: | United States
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| Scripture: | Matthew 23:1-12
Psalm 116:1-2, 12-19
Psalm 86
Luke 17:5-10
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| Lectionary links: | AProp26
CHoly04
AProp07
AProp11
AEast03
BDiv
CProp22
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| General Subject: | Servants
Culture: African American
Culture: Black
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| Copyright Source: | http://www.flickr.com/photos/freeparking/2224821427/ |
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| Attribution: | Wood, Thomas Waterman, 1823-1903. Sherry, Sir, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. https://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=54276 [retrieved September 25, 2023]. Original source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/freeparking/2224821427/. |
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| Record Number: | 54276
Last Updated: 2021-11-12 14:03:33
Record Created: 2009-03-19 13:33:52 |
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| Institution: | Vanderbilt University
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Collection: Art in the Christian Tradition |
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